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Hmm... I wonder if there is any real difference between "Stop reading, turn off that
light and GO TO SLEEP!" and "Turn off that computer and GO TO SLEEP!"?
Or if the current concern for childhood obesity and lack of strenious activity with our
kid's current lifestyle was not manifest in earlier times by the the idea that "All that
reading isn't good for you, GO OUT AND PLAY!"?
While there were those restraints applied to reading, they can hardly compare to those
warm and snug times where my sister and I were cuddled up to our mom and listened to
a few chapters before we fell asleep and got carried off to bed. My fondest memory is
of my own son, as a little guy, when he had fallen asleep part way through a story and
I noticed that he was giggling in his sleep.
Personally I think that the fun reading comics then Science Fiction or Kid detective
books made a bridge to the skill that made reading an unconscious process at an early
age. I think that NASA owes more to the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" than is much
appreciated. Somehow I don't see "Harry Potter" or the "Twilight Series" books as
having the beneficial impact of a "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" or the non-hollywood
original "Starship Troopers".
Luck;
Ken
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